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  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Sucher: Dust off that COVID playbook After the June 27 debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, 64 percent of 1,024 US workers surveyed reported suffering—or seeing others suffer—poor treatment at work for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

property right allocations, we find that studio-financed films receive superior marketing investments compared to independent films and that these investments fully mediate the positive effect of vertical integration on film revenues. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

students get closer to a goal that many bring to the course: to not just learn about moral leadership, but to prepare to exercise it in their own lives. But the real power of the integration comes from the fact that students engage with... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=605077 Financial Reporting Problems at Molex, Inc. (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 107-048 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

deeming it unearned. They also reported a heightened sense of belonging, optimism about career advancement, and access to expanded networks. Yet among those who interacted regularly with Japanese counterparts, narratives also revealed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

steps and re-calculations. As he finds a sports auction house to consign his collection, he watches the auction market and reports on his findings as well as his strategies and successes. While dealing with the disappointments of parting... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

amplify investors' chasing of past returns rather than facilitate the processing of useful information in fund portfolios. Fund managers exploit this behavior by purchasing media-covered past winners at reporting dates, a strategy most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Tribune. Browne reported on Henrietta’s story and used his legal training to bring about her repatriation to her father in England through a sensational legal case. Forever Sheriff (The High Mountain Sheriff Series) By Edward Massey (MBA... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Leemore S., Igal Hendel, Victoria Marone, and Christopher Ody Abstract—Anecdotal reports and systematic research highlight the prevalence of narrow-network plans on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance Marketplaces. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

In this paper we propose a perceptions framework for categorizing a range of inventory policies, including optimal inventory policies, that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. The perceptions framework is based on forecasting with Auto-regressive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

The House that Howard Built

continues, “without a really clear idea of what I was going to do.” He knew that research and integration with more well-established areas — through cases on entrepreneurship across a variety of disciplines and businesses — would be key... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America, and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

events associated with the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. European IFRS adoption represented a major milestone towards financial reporting convergence yet spurred... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Camel and the Unicorn

an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James E. Robison Chair of Business... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organizations and others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Study Results Author:Robert Simons Abstract This paper reports the collective finding from 102 field studies that look at the relationship between two organization design variables: span of control and span of accountability. Clustering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic ecosystems. Specifically, how should diverse entities be integrated into a coherent network that generates goods in the present and new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2017
  • News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia